HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1912-04-04, Page 7THE AMERICAN MINERS
HAVE NOW QUIT WORK
But Believed That the Strike Will be of
Short Duration.
An and Bituminous Miners Leave
by the Thousands.
New York, April J. -Anthracite coal
operators believe, that the stespension
of work in the hara coal region which
went into effect to -day will not con-
tinue long and that the coining meet.
ing of the .operators' vommittee and re-
presentatives of the miners on April 10
in Philadelphia, will reeume it a basis
of settlement. This belief is strength-
eued, the operatore say, by the fact
that there have been no traces -of bit-
terness shown on either side and that
this makes a satisfactory adjustment
of difference e much easier,
Just what proposition the minere
will submit to the operators at the
coming Philadelphia conference as a
baeis of discussion, 'has not been learn-
ed, but the operatont think the two
points of chief iseue will be the ques-
times of increased wages and recognie
to of the union. Some of the opera-
tors are in favor of the granting an in.
ereese in wages, while one railroad
company is Said to oppose a bigher in-
creatie, claiming that it would wipe out
las margin of profit.
. The operator's say that the question
Of reeognition of the union was settled
for all tan° by the award of the an-
thraeite cominiseion several years ago.
It is reported here to -day that sever-
al independent companiee had made
special arangements with their men to
continuo mining and that this; 'coal
weula be sold to consumene at an in.
ereased cost.
INDIANA. MINES DESERTED.
India,mtpolis, April 1. -Except for a
few pumpers and other men employed
to keep the property in shape the bi-
tuminoue coal mines of Indiana are
deserted to -day and they will remain
idle until the 20,000 minerreceive no-
tice that the wages eontraet, agreed to
in Cleveland, lute been ratified by a re
-
fermium vote.
Minene officials and operators of 'this,
tbe llth district, of the United aline
Workers of America, declare that the
contract will be raeified by an almost
tmaninunts art&
Business in Indiana win not be ham-
pered, ae, large manufacturing cell -
erns have laid in aupplies of coal to
lest thein for several weeks.
OHIO MINERS IDLE.
Columbus, Ohio, .April 1. -The 50,000
bituminous coal miners in the southern
arta eager mining districts of Ohio are
idle ,to -day. Although the day is a
holiday in celebration of eight hour
day, the men will not return to work
vetil the completion, of the count in
the referendum, vote, erhkaa will not
be before, April 15, according to G. W.
Savage, Ohio Secretary of the United
lfine Worker. Emergemey men were
left in the mines, however, to pre,
vent damage by water.
ALSO IN MICHIGAN.
Detroit, 'alich.'April 1.--Bituminone
coal miners- to the number of about
3,000 are idle in Michigan to -day, and
will remain out of the working pending
the ratification of the new wage agree-
IVIOTOR SHIPS
Steamships Will Soon be a
Thing of the Past,
Loudon, March 31. -Sir Marcus Sam.
the oil magneto, took _part yester-
day in the discussion before the Institte
tion of Naval Architects on the achieve.
silent of the motor ship Selandia,
which is equipped with the Diesel gas
engine.
With the oil -fuel engines in existence ;
the fact was demonstrated, Sir Mamas !
said, that those who went on building '
steam engines with the knowledge now
afforded were only courting disaster. He
aesnred his hearers that his eompaey.
which pesseesed seventy VeSSPIS, would
never build another steamship.
3:e himself, he seil„was absolutely •
-certain that engines of the Diesel type
woold take the place of steam, end
his own eompitneds Vulettna had shown
that the Consumption of oil was as one
to five when -compared with coal,
The question of oil supplies, Sir Mar-
eus ridded, was undoubtedly a grave oue,
but there were enormous supplies await-
ing development in addition to the ems -
plies already in existence, He inganeed
Borneo, for example, and added that the
Mexican supplies were by no meane
fully developed, while great hopes were
also entertained of the succesful develop-
ment of the Egyptian oil fields.
;another speaker stated that he had
found that the Diesel engine e 'worked so
Smoothly and well that the engineer
had practically nothing to do, and touid
isit down ana reaa booka
Admiral Sir Gerard Noel assured the
meeting that the Royal navy cordially
welcomea tits advent of the Diesed en-
gine, principally on the ground of ecom
omyin fuel. He was delighted to hear
Sir Marcus Samuel say that the stip.
ply of oil was praetieally unlimited.
The neat step would be to get that oil
stored in this tountry, a. matter width
tailed for very serione Consideration.
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BOUGHT RAILWAY.
Zateeville, Obio, AOril 1. -The Ohio
River & Western Railroad, extending
from Zanesville to Bellaire, whielt was
lately aequirea by George S. Jones, of
Toledo, and other eapitatiste, has been
purchased by the Penneylvania Relive:0
Company at it cost of $3,000,000, stecord-
ing to an announeement of the Ohio
River &a Western offitiale here. The
transfer its saki to boarish, elso eonsider-
able coal rights in Belmont eonnty.Ohio.
AUTHOR DEAD.
pwa(n, Germany, April L -Karl aray,
the welattnown writer M andian
sled root:meg for Wye, died It eee to-dey
it Ids 70th year. 11th ttaneleted how
etre& of IStori o* from the Arabian, Tark-
Hi, Pete -len and Caineee, ani wrote
Many Merles dealiug with the T�ian
of the far west.
molt. At a number of the mines there
are Joeal grievances to be adjusted and
the men announce they will take ad --
vantage of the suspension to lave their
claims settled.
EIGHT-HOUR DAY.
Philadelphia, April 1.-"Eight-hout
(lay" waa observed by tire anthracite
mine worker e to -day, and there was a
complete Aut.-down throughout „, the
Tiara coal regions. About 175,000 teen
are idle. Some years ago the union
biturninone miners in the wed won an
eight-hour day, and ever slue it had
been the euetom to observe that. Victory
or. April 1, the day the eight-hour agree-
ment went into effeet. The anthracite
'eine workeie have been contendang for
similar work day for ten years bat
the best they have seemed thue ler is
a reduction from ten to nine hours a
day,
Here and there in other year's. there
has been some work done on "eight-hour
day" in the hard coal regions, but to-
day there was a. complete susoensiou
because of the order issued last week
by the officers of the United Mine
Worker. The real test as to whether
the order will be fully obeyed will come
to -morrow morning, when the eilliery
whistlea blow. Trie union leaders ex-
preee coofidence in a complete suspen-
eion until a new agreement is entered
into by the inen and operators.
Report e from different parte of the
enthrvaite field &tow that ail engineers,
pump i.nen, stable men and °there neces-
sary for the preservation of mine pro-
perty reported for duty. Many of the
companio are taking advantage of the
idleness to make mach needed repairs,
c\Vork throughout the winter and early
ernine has been steady because of the
great° demand for fuel, and there has
been no (hence to catch up with repair
work.
WYOMING ALSO IDLE,
Wilkesbanre, Pa., April 1. --In cempla
:ewe with the order of President White,
of the United aline Workers, the anthra-
cite minere of the 'Wyoming region did
not report for work to -day, and all the
collieries are idle. The railroad com-
panies axe bib:Ty moving coal from the
siding; adjoining the mines. This will
furnish employment for the. mile -oast
crews for several days, and then they
will be idle.
President White and the executive
boar& of the three anthracite dietricts
will hold a meeting here to outline plans
previous to the conference with the opers
atore in Philitelelphia. It can be (odd
that the original demands of the union
mine workers will be presented.
40,000 OUT.
Chicago ,April 1. -Forty thousand
miners of bitundoous coal in Illinois -
are idle to -day as a result of the ex-
piration of the wage scale agreement
at midnight Sunday. The 250 mines are
Ghat down ana will continue rlosed
until members of the United Mine
'Workers of America have had an op-
portunity to cast a referendum vote on
the tentative agreement and new wage
Sale approved by the Illinois operators
and the miners.
FAVOR UNION
Vo:e of Quarterly Official
Boards of 548 Churches.
Methodist Quarterly Offieial. Boards
to the number of 548 out of a total of
2,000 have .paseed upon Church unicn,
Only twenty fire voted against.
total vote of theme 'boas* in
Forfi 40o. oo ma 60 ..
Aeainee
• • • I • • • • •
Against .. .. , . , . , ...
Or 7 to I in favor.
Total vote by congregatiOne te date:
For .. ... aaaa 10 0 • I . 13,895
Against ... • 4 • • 4 1 0 • V I 1,890
The
full is:
8,024
3,213
7,411
afajority „ 4...
Or 7 to I ia favor.
Total vote to date of 50 of the 70
Presbyteries ie as follows:
CHURCH UNION,
A DAZZLER
Diamond-StuddedShoesand
$50,0D0 Wardrobe,
New York, Mareb. 31.-----4.nnottneing
that to -morrow elle will glitter edema'
Fifth avenue in her diamondestudded
elms, atm C. 11. Anthony, nf alueele,
Ind., ohm rentarkable $50,000 wardrobe
has been the sensation of Washingtoa
Iiigilt.
throughout the wintert arrived in New
York en the Congreetnonal Limited to -
"I feel store" .said Mrs. Anthony, qbett,
me, Easter hat wiU tostouieh the avenue.
I have given a great deal of thought to
this most beautiful eonfeetion, and I
do not feel that I should deeeribe it in
advance.
"I have Ineome a suffragette," said
aft's, Anthony, "and you may say that
at the very first chance I shall go to
the polls in my diamond -heels end very
beg clothee and cast my ballot.
"Men will be glad to have women
vote if they dressed their prettiest when
they go to the polio. Cannot you int-
agine an election day parade of gorgeous
gowns and hats on the way to the
American ballot?"
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"PERFECT PURITY"
U. S Superior Court Defines
Duties of Wife.
Husband and Wife Should
Not Live Apart.
Philadelphia, Metall 30.-A pre -nuptial
vow hy a young couple to pass the re-
mainder of their livoin "perfe,ct purity"
was the baeis for the unusual e.ondition
which hae been disposed of by a decision
by Judge Orlady, of the superior court,
reversing the ruling of Judge lateen], lir
common pleas court No. 1. After living
togethea for fourteen years in lawful
wedlock, without the . marriage having
been commentated, Clement Remington
H. Cunningham and hie wife, Irene Ds.
separated, and she began equity pro.
ceedinge against her husband for a suit -
Able allowance for her support, Jukes!
Magill awarded the wife $100 a month,
In justification of his net ia leaving
hie wile the hueband complained that
she had. abeolutely refused to fulfill her
marital duties, and he also complained
of her treatment of him. In defence of
her trange aetions, Mre. Cunningham
explained that about a year befo-re their
marriage she and Mr. Clunnineham had
knelt down together in the parlor, and,
taking God as their witness, had vowed
to live the rest of their lives in "perfect
purity."
Judge ftdc' Orlady, in reversing the deci-
eion of the court below and. diemisaing
the wife's uit, said:
"It is not the policy of the law to en-
courage the living apart of lmsband and.
wife, while the marital relation exists in
force, After the marriage cootratt is en-
tered into the rights, duties and obliga-
tions of the parties are fixed by law.
The relation ie. said to be the Parent and
not the child of civil soeiety, reprinted
and proscribed by law, and endowed with
civil consequences. It is more than a
()Nil contract, it is an institution of the
state. It supersedes all other contracts
between the parties, in relation th it
and with certain exceptions it is incon-
sistent with the power to snake new
ones. Our whole social system is found-
ed on the theory of husband and. wife
living together as cuch.
"Mrs. Cunningham does not seek a sev-
erance of the contract of paarriage, but
asserts it, to compel her husband to
maintain her while iiving apart from
him. She ireforprets her duty in a way
that is oppoeed to universal law, the
dictates of humanity and public polleye
and this after repeated refusals- to live
inti home of his own making. She at-
tempts to read into the marriage con-
tract a clause which would Practically
annul it,. and defeat its purpose as a civil
institution, and this,solely on Recount
of an unnatural and pecailiar view of
what constitetee purity of the marital
relations and the conjugal dutiet of a
wiiele:'
Twhole question may be finally
disposed in the eettlement of a suit for
divorce brought by the busbana and now
pending in common pleas court No. 3.
FOR KNOX COLLEGE
12,005 Strathcona to Give $25,000
for New Building.
For.
Already reported , -113,292
Eamouton 1,890
doorroor•••••....
Total .., 113,123
elealnet.
Aiready reisorted •*4 v 49,775
Elmonton • 533
Total -
lorvorro...muo••••
, 50,308
0.••••••••,••••......0
For ...... ..114,123
Ageing 50,308
Majority „.. 63,a15
BASIS Or taarION.
For . r• 60 • V 76,34/
Against • • . 33,810
Majority . „ 42,531
Votes rod to date .. -104,431
Total membership _ 287,944
FOUND DEAD
English Girl Meets Death
at Winnipeg.
'Winnipeg, Ala% lattreh 31. ---The mys-
tery eurrounding the appearitnee of
Grace Bike, the 24-yettreitti lengaelt
ten'l who had been gene from her home,
515 Lendeale street, Sinee Filtley 'after-
noon, itae been (derived ep by the itis -
of her body in the scrub of a
eOntli end subelivielon. She sene Stile
f jeet to melanebolia „end doubtleet wan -
tiered (may eriti fell ti vietim to expo -
Imre in the unn.-Aull storm of Fraley
night. Piller() will be *no inquest. De -
I-CP,100.1 ceme with her family nein
ilanne llity, latglani,1 utoeths no,
(Ina bad ftetoit as organist tif Marytend
Met ltediet
"I will contribute$25,000 to eom-
plete the $400,000 to be raised by
subscription for new buildings for
lanox College.
"Stretheona."
Toronto, April 1. -Principal Gandier,
speaking at St. James' Square Church
yeeterday forenoon, announced that he
had received the above cablegram from
Lord Strathcona last week.
This contribution from the Canadian
High Commissioner leaves only $75,000
to be subscribed. The canvass in To-
ronto will be eompleted at once, and a
number of congregations elsewhere will
then be visited, that the work may be
finished at an early date.
This programme was explained by the
principal, who expreseed his gratifica-
tion not only at the response to the ap-
peel for new buildinge, but ale° at the
ineteased number of students who are
enrollea for the ministry.
The work on the foundations for the
new buildings fronting on the Univer-
eity lawn :Ina extending through to St.
George street, has already been begun
and building operations will be pushed
forward Without delay. Already tenders
have been called for and eontraete wil
SOOn be let. The new buildings, it is ex-
peeted, will be ready for oecupetion
within two yeaas. They will present
maguifieent appearance and will be eons -
plate in every detail; Lord Stratheoutee
gift bee assured the inuaediate :success;
of the renvass.
G c, T. R. SWITCHMEN.
Detroit, April 1.---A epeoial to the De-
troit News front Durand, Mich., Myst
A. general ttike leas been declerea by
the ewitehmen of the Grand Trank Rail-
road, to go into effeet at a o'cloek thie
Morning, unteee the company witiolteave
its order to take the third mart from
the ewith train*. The iitt.1611 Wit8
I eecretly taken yeeterday, arid the men
are now welting- \void from the griev-
:Mee Contrratice at preeent ittMontreal.
CONN SCUT
LOST THE RACE
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W. D. HAYWOOD JUDGE'S ADVICE
Bridgeport Socialists Want
to liave Min Expelled.
Denver, April 1. Charges against
WaS 150 Miles From South Haywood, Sovialiet leetarer
and former secretary of the Western
Pole on Jan. a. Asloratiou of 'Mine Workers, Isere filled
yesterday "s3'). Vie Denver orgatezation
iThe Terra Nova Arrives at
New Zealand.
Scott to Remain Another
Year -London Sorry
'Wellington, New Zealand, March '31. -
Captain Robert F. Scott's vessel, Terra
Nava, which carried the British expe-
ditioa to the antarctic, has arrived at
Akarore a harbor an Ilan's& peninsula,
New Zealand, but hies not brought back
Captain Scott or the members of his ex-
pedition. The commander of Terra Nova
brought; instead the following brief mes-
sage from Scott:
"I am remaining- in the autaretie for
another winter in order to continue and
complete my work." •
The latest news sent back by Captain
Scott to tus beer) at afcMuedo Sound,
.showed that on January 3 he lutd reach -
ea a point 150 ulnae from the South Pole
and Wail still advancing.
It was dee: that lied the explorer de-
layed sending back notificatiou of his
progress until he actually reached. the
Pole, news front him could not have
been received by the Terra Nova 1)0R:ire
she was compelled to leave (ming to the
Bettina in of winter and tlee freezing of
the Illss sea.
All on board the Terra Nova are well.
Great disappointment was felt when
it became known that the Scott party
had been left behind. The Terra Nova
is expected to reach Lyttelton on Wed-
nesday.
LONDON DISAPPOINTED.
London, March 31. -The long and im-
patiently waited news of Captain Scott's
antarctic expedition has at last arrived,
but will bring the keenest dieeppoint-
ment to the cherished hopes of all Eng -
nehmen that the British expedition
might after all prove to be the first in
the race for the South Pole.
On January 3, nearly three weeks at -
tor Amundsen hoisted the Norm gian
flag at the pole, Scott still had 150 miles
to cover before attaining the object of
his desires.
Since the news of Amundsen' s success-
ful attempt, Enblishmen have built great
hopes on Captain Scott, emulating, if
not surpassing the Norwegian's achieve-
ment. It was known that Scott had
chosen the longer route, and, as Ainund-
sen's experience proved, the more (tali -
cult, route, but, presuming that he was
favored by the same exceptional weather
conditions as Amundsen, few doubted hie
SuCCeSs.
The despatch from Captain Scott is re-
garded as glowing that he travelled
much slower than Lieutenant Sir Ernest
Shaekelton, and that he must have en-
countered unexpected diffieulties, The
opinion is expressed that his ponies were
a failure.
There will be further weary waiting
before it can be known whether he suc-
ceeded in reaching the Pole. Aceording
to some of Captain aleott's intimate
friends here however, no surprise need
be felt at his decision to spend another
winter in the south, this having been
within the original scope of his inten-
tions. They suggest that he may have
learned of Amundsen's exploit, and
thereupon determined to attempt a. great
journey across the ice barrier to the op-
posite side of the continent.
A HOT TIME
One Murder and 80 Arrests
in Illinois Riot.
Rock Island, Ill., March 31. --One mur-
der, a vicious attack on sluggers, scores
of fights and eighty men arrested was
flap record of the find day of open
saloons at Rook Island since the militia
cloaca down the places after the fatal
rioting of last Tuesday.
The dead men is Ruffle Phoenix, who
was shot and 'bits body thrown into an
alley. This death is ehrounded in mys-
tery, the sluggers debiting he was ehot
by the soldiers, while the commanding
officer of . the state forces declare his
men have not fired a (shot eince they
assumed eharge of the city.
Walter Rice, of Galesburg, is badly
battered ae a result of being taken for
Chief of Police Brinn. Rice and Brinn
look very much alike and dress almost
exactly the same, it is believed Rice
was attacked and beaten by a band of
slugger's, who thought they were aesault-
ing the chief of police.
Eighty men, participants in etreet
fights last night, many intoxieteted, are
in the eity and county jails.
Following a free for all fight at the
Lincoln club last night, and the inter-
ference of soldiers and police, Rufus
Phoeeix, chauffeur for Cantain Walter
Rosenfield, Who is campaign manager
for Laurence Y. Shermaneandidate
for governor, was found dead in the
alley outeide of the elub shortly after
midnight. He bad been shot through
the left lung. Two stories are being
circulated as to how he met his death,
Ono is that in a dispute in a poker
game he was sbot end Ids body teken
outelde the chtb to avoid publicity.
The other is that in the reertimble of
club members to get away when the
pollee and militia, arrived he was shot
down its trying to eseape.
Fifteett men found in the Chili when
the raid was made are locktel in the
polio() station to -night. Coroner Itose
will hold a violet invettigation as sone
as he finishes; with Oa inquest ou the
two riot victim. Sheriff Brauer to.day
declared that Phoenix had not been ehot
by a Militiaman.
CABOOSE ON FIRE.
Guelph, Ont., April G. T. It, ea-
booee attaehed to a freight train, corn-
ing from Elora, was burned Sunday
Inorniag. A lamp exploded and toe fire
to the interior of the caboose, The en-
gineer nutneged to run the train to
Guelph diemond, when the eity fire de-
pertment wee tailed and prevetted the
flat:tee from spreading to the other poet
Of the train. The conductor lost all MS
pepere anti returns.
It I r 4.04.004
Vitecientom te on the deerease ntSenea
land and the army of eutaveeeinators
ha* ineretteed,
of goeleliste lay the Bridgeport, Conn..
= braneh, with the requeet for Haywood's
4)$pn)siou from the International Social- •
ist party. The Bridgeport oetelfsta
ehargelieywoed with having organized
M. dual machinkts' union eompomed
largely of men expelled by Soeiniiets of
Bridgeport; with having taken eharge
of the Lawrenceville textile worker,'
strike at the heed of Ole rival organi-
sation against the protests of the regu-
lar Socia,liste, and with having made al-
most a farce of the Socialist day ;tweet-
ing in Dridgeport, 2,5, by speaking
at a similar meeting held. ,by the rival
organization.
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BROTHERS SHOT
Two of' Them May Die -
Other Shot on Knee.
Strange Tragedy in a Mont-
real Hotel.
Montreal, March al.-Atempting to
ayenge a fancied insult to a rady ac-
quaintance of their brother, Edgar and
Herbert Chapman were shot, probably
fatally, in a room in the Savoy Hotel
'at 4 o'cloele this moroing, while Harold
Chapman, the brother, lies in the hos.
pital with a bullet i.n his knee.
Carl Hommans. a pleyer in the or-
chestra of the Enchantress company
with Kitty Gordon, which finished, its
engagement in Montreal last night and
left to -day for New York, is held, charg-
ed with the shooting, and will plead
self-defence.
Harold Chapman 'had a' rOom in the
Savoy Hotel, and early this morning a•
woman celled to see him, saying she had
heard he was sick. He was in isis room
asleep. The woman found the lock
broken and started to mend it, The
noise of her hammering awoke Harry
Stanford, a player in the alone company
as Hemmans, who came out and asked
the woman not to make so much noise.
She desisted,' and went into Chapman's
room and told him of her conversation
with Stanford. Stanford in the mean-
time went into Hemmans' room for a
taiCkbapman came to the door and saw
Stanford entering Hemmens' room. He
got up and dreeseed and then -sent a mes-
sage for his brother, who live near by,
saying that he was in trouble. The mes-
senger came back with some money, his
'brothers believing he meant financial
difficulties. Harold Chapman, then got
a hack, &rove up to his brother's resi-
denee, where they lived with their
mother, and got them out of bed, bring-
ing them down to the Savoy Hotel. The
three went to Chapman's room and re-
moved their coats. Then they went to
Hemmans' room, whieh Staaford had
been seen oto enter by Harold Chap-
man. They broke down the door. Stan-
ford had left the room for his own while
Harold Chapman had gone out, but
Henumens was sitting on the side of the
bed. As they entered something broke
the electric light, plunging the room
into darkness.
Shouting out threats, the three broth-
ers rushed at Hemmans, whom Harold
took to be the man who had had the
conversation with the Woman outside
his door, and throwing him to the floor,
startea to beat him. Hemmans manag-
ed to struggle to his suitcase, on the
top of which he had left a revolver,- and
'opened fire in the darkness. All three
brothers were hit.
When the hotel employees arrived
on the scene they found the Chapman*
helpless encl. Hemmans badly beaten.
The shooting was done with a 32 -cali-
bre revolver with soft -nosed bullet. F4d-
' gar Chapman has a bullet in his lungs,
while Herbert is wounded in the liver
and chest. 'Neither are expected to
reeover.
To -day the ante-mortem statement of
the wounded men were taken. Edgar
Chapman identified Hemmanse who fa
helil by the pave, and offered to
shake hands with him, eaying, "You're
not to blame at all, old man."
The woman in the ease declares that
she did not tell Chapman that Sten -
ford' words were diseourteoes, merely
saying that he had ftsked her not to
make so much noise.
Whitt story Harold Chapmen meld
have, told his brothers. who both have
stood reautatione as steadyworkers at
their trade as painters, to get them out
of beet at dead of night to make an
assault on a 'nail they had never seeneie
unknown as yet.
Harold Chapman win be 'remembered
as one of the ushers at the Orpbeum
WhO was present ta the card game last
November when Charles Rose shot and
killed Bob Fitzsimmons, the ticket taker,
(luring a quarrel over a bet.
1
FATAL SHOCK
Derr:ck Came in Contact
With Live Wire.
Newmarket, March George
MeTavieh was eleetrocatte.1 and two
Other men seriouely burned when the
Mat of a erane they were testing
earee in •contaet with the lugit ten-
sion wires earrying Niagara power to
the transformer citation heie. ate -
!revisit, who Wng foreman for taleeidy
& Luseby, stone Petters, WAS with
the other men raleing the grin of the
trate under tat laireS When it towhee]
- the wire, and, eei he WAS 1101di»S., She
- hook at the tea of the cable, he re.
eeived the tull force of the shook. '1 he
- other men Were working the crank and
coeld not let go. Their hamia were
badly Verna r‘aleTityleh WW1 telt:urea
older by another man peehing the erane
away from the wire with it plank. Ile
fell bleeding to the groun I, but death
wee inetantaneous,
DIDN'T STRIKE.
Detroit, April lee -The threatened gen-
end strike of Grand Trunk Railway
twill:Aimee, to bake effeet to -day, beeauee
the eomparty Wined an order dispieneittsa
vitit tha tided Man On 4.triteh 0451'04
failed tfi materialize, The emptily is
ettill to have withdrawn the order tout-
Porarily.
Husband Should, Not Go
Shopping With Wife.
Plan Knows Nothing of
Feminine Furnishings,
Chicago, IllsMarch 30.-ellenee-
forth, when "friend wife" tries to per:
Nude. huohy to take en afternoon off
and help her pick out a dress or a hat
it will not be neeeseary for him to re-
sort te the ancient "tall" about the
impossibility of getting away from the
office.
All he will have to (to is to produce it
certified dopy of tee jwUctal opinion
relating to such ca$Q8 48 handed down
to -day by Judge Newcomer. Here it
"Huebanda only make trouble when
they go with their wives to aasist in
the selection of dresses and other fens
inine furnishings, No man knows any.
thing about a woman's dress, lie has
no bkisincea going shopping with a wo-
man. He's in the way and should epens\
his time in a more profitable sursuit,
if a woman lets a man pick her clothes
she must be content if she looks like
a frump. I say to 401 husbands, never
help your wife ehop."
The hueband later took the . dress
back and suggested alterations, "Yes,
and made matters • worse," interposed
the judge.
Further alterations were made, but
this time, Mrs. Berman declared in hey
testimony, the dress was too small in-
etead of too large. She had other faulta.
to find with it as well, namely:
"The kimona sleeves were botched."
"Tie V-baek came down too low."
in support of these assertions she
held up the dress for the .iis3pection of
the court. The judge teemed perplexed
and decided the affair Was too complis-
eated to pass upon without eareftil de-
liberation.
He will coma the latest fashion
plates, the law books and the "Dress-
makers' Guide."
A WONDER
Electricity Aid to Growth
40 of School Children.
Stockholm, Sweden, March 814 -It
is announced that Prof. Sventie-Ar-
rhenius, the noted physicist, has com-
pleted in this city a series of experi-
ments proving that electricity is a
marvelous aid to the physical and
mental growth of school children.
The experiments were made under
conditions of much interest. Two
groups of 50 children of practically
similar physique, age and mentality,
were placed in two rooms exactly
alike except that in the walls of one
of the rooms were concealed wire
carrying continuously high frequency,
alternating electrical currents on a
system perfeetee by the French scien-
ti3t, Dr. clarersonval. Neither the
teachers nor the pupils knew that
they were expoped to this influence,
which made the schoolroom a strong,
magnetic field.
At the end of six Months the elec-
trically ,magnetised children. and
grown on an average of 51 millimetres
(two inches) and the unenagnetized
32 millimetres (1.16 inches), making
20 the standard of perfection, the
magnetized children. reached in their
studies an average of 18.4, while 15
attained a perfect mark. The un -
magnetized children reached au aver-
age of 15, onlyk nine attaining perfect
marks,
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STOPPED THEM
Suspected ofBeingin White
Slave Traffic.
Windsor, Ont., alarc 31. -In the
arrest here this afternoon of Tofik
Leon, it Syrian, who says he Is a
barber, and `lives in Toronto, the
police believe they may have uncover-
ed one of the many "underground"
routes used in the white slave traf-
fic between Canada and the United
States. Immigration Inspector Ma-
son, who made the arreste found
Dorothy Cadieux, also of Toronto, in
company With the Syrian, and brought
both to police headquarters here for
a .further investigation, The girl
claims to be 17 year ola, but with
dresses oniy to her shoe tops looks
at least three years younger, She
is a Freneh-Canadiart nationality and
pretty. According to Dorothy's etory,
she is an orphan, and up to tare days
ago had been employed by a family
named Clever, at No. 14 Soho street,
as a. nurse girl. She met Leon, she
says, and he induced her after only
a brief acquaintance to accompany
him to Detroit, where he promised to
marry her. The eottple came itt over
the Canadian Pacific Railroad front
Toronto this afternoon, but were stop-
ped by the American officers and
sent back to Windsor as "ttedesir-
ables." The Detroit officers say
they are convinced Leon was bring-
ing the girl into the United States
for immoral purposes.
0
KILLED SISTER
Other Woman Slipped and
Escaped Death.
i POSTAGE STAMPS
The Dufferin Co. Inspector
Charged With Forgery.
Orangeville, Mara, 31,-Tite Court
House was crowded yesterday when
five charges of forgery against form-
er Public Behool Inspeetor Nathaniel
Gordon were investigated before
Police Magistrate Patkulo, Mr. Cor-
don had been inspector since the
formation of the county of Dufferin,
Borne thirty years ago, until the
November session of the County
Council, when he was suspended for
alleged taring with several
vouehers in cz..nnevtion with the pur.
cb.ase of postage stamps. The in.
spector vas disminfled 10,, the County
Council at toe January session fol.
lowing,
Warden Cornelius testified that de-
fendant had produced three receipts
for stamps, two for four dollars each,
and one for two dollars; and fifty
cents, Tho Warden had told defen-
dant the vouchers had been raised,
the four -dollar ones from one dollar
and the two dollar and a half one
from fifty cents, This, witness said,.
the defendant admitted claiming that
he had purchased other stamps, which
• he had used in his office, and altered.
the vouchers to show his actual
outlay,
Chieopte, rass., April 1. -An aeeldeet
was all that saved Mrs. Julia R. Malt
from being instantly kilted when an ex-
prope trent overtook her and and tier -
sister, Itatherine Conzig, on a trestle -
here last night. Vie two women were
running to get away from the train
when, Airs. Vrak sttunbled and fell a few
yards ahead of the engine. She niipped
betueen the timbers of the trestle to
an abutment below, while the lovomotive
overtook and killed her elster.
J.,,1444
A CLEVER DOG.
Loilt1011, Ont., April 1 remarkable
demonstration of canine limehtg isetinet
reaurred here on Sunday, when n. nine,
months -old fox terrier Wined up at ita
'miter home in this eitv, the residence
of a prominent eitizen. The dog had
been given to friends in Windsor three
weeks ago, old ehortly afterwards dis-
appeared. Ilit the most direst way the
iistanes is one hundred and ton miles.
Seeing falsely is worse than blindness,
Red spestkinre falsely than vilentee---I
BuSkin.
A WIRELESS JOKE
April Fool Great Airship
Building in New York.
• New York, April 1.-A printed state-
ment sent broadcast aboal; the financial
district to -day makes the following an-
nouncement regardinfg the plane of the
"International Wirelese Airship Com-
pany":
"The company bas purchased a large
plot on lower Broadway, on which Is
will at once build a reinforced concrete
building of one hundred storeys, which
will be 1,475 feet in height, which, with
a tower for a wireless airship station,
will be twice as high. as any 'building
now in the world.
"The roof of this structure will be
used. exclusively for a landing station
for the airships, which will make week-
ly sailings direct to London, the County
council there having leased to the com-
pany the entire roof space of their new
building on the Thames, opposite the
Houses of Parliament. The trip will
be nutde in about thirty-six hours.,
"The entire project is being financed
here by the money trust in connection
with the Bank of England."
The peculiar name of the company's
president, Mr. Bypell, and the dating
of the announcement on April 1, led
most of those who received the eireulars
to regard them the first of the financial
dtiosatrieet's series of annual April first
ixs.
LADY WARWICK
Explains Why She Quit and
Went Home.
London, April 1, ---The Countess of
Warwick, who arrived at Plymouth
to -day on the steamship Olympic from
New York, was met on her arrival here
by her husband, who greeted her very
affectionately. The Countess told a re-
porter that she knows now what lectur-
ing in America means, and she will not
attempt to go there on any such mission
again. She would like to return to 'Am-
erica. for pleasure and to stody the peo-
ple and the conditions of the social side
of life, which she had no opportunity to-
do while on the lecture tour.
The Countess is in perfect health, and
deelares that her only reason for aban-
doning the lecture tour was her inabil-
ity tb stand the travelling at night. She
said: "The Americans are delightful. I
made many friends through the lectures,
and the people treated me everywhere
with the greatest hospitality. They are
alarming, but the travelling was too
much for a woman oi my age. • Jusj. cone
trast the easy, short journeys on Eng-
lishrailways with the long distances 111
America. It was more than I email be
expected to face. I had booked to go
right through the west, but I should
have broken down if I had attempted it.
"I have been to America for pleasure.
not profit," said the Countess. "It
would be absurd to say that my lee.-
ture were not a financial success. All
my expectations severe exceeded, but if
I disappointed any audiences by not glee
ingmy experiences and reminiscences of
society, I am glad of it. I could not,
and would not, give my friends away
Other lectures must be found for that
purpose."
LOST HIS HEAD
Wealthy Farmer Decapi.
ta,ted by Circular Saw.
Canandaigua, Des'patelt Frederlek
Johnson, 87, a wealthy farmer, residing
near Rushville, was decapitated late yes-
terday by a circular saw under conditions
that Indicate suicide.
Jeharsn was assisting tits brother Frank,
anti et:liars, at the latter's place with a
portable saw. The engine went bad,
aria, without stepping it, tne men at-
tempted to fiX it, leaving Fred near the
saw,
A tow nonetes tater an unusual sound
coining troto the direetioft of the sow at-
tracted their attention, and they looked
up in time to see Johnson's head roll off
tne reeding beard. The saw Severed his
bead as completely as could have been
(10710 With surgeon's inetrunrientS. It also
cut off the top of his left shoulder lalade.
Johnson had been Mciantholy for some
One, and heal, it is mid, suicidal tenden-
cies. Y/6 had recently returned from an
institution itt whith he )ia.t1 reeeived treat -
Men t.
Johnsen is survived by Ids wife and two
elt4laren, his brother and father.
CHALMERS ACQUITTED.
St. Catharines despateh: Fred .Clottn-
bete, a, local piano agent, was to -day ite-
quitted by Judge Comae of a charge
brought ageing him by Officer Gunton,
of the Children's Aid Society, on behalf
of Daisy Howard, a lifteen-year-old ward
of the society. The decision was baSed
on the ease of Queen vs. "Valley, wherein
it was held that the untorroborated Pvi-
doriet of the girl is insuffieient to eon.
viet. Crown Attorney Brennan Wag;
grante4 a stated case for the Court of
Appeal, with it View to ReOtiling att.
auling as to whether the decision
In the Valley ease la sound, practical
la tv.
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LOST HIS HAND
Two Montrealers Hurt Fool-
ing With Dynamite.
Montreal, Aphil L. -Fooling with
dynamite cape led to Ernest Vallee, of
Duverney street, losing his left hand,
and Joseph MeDonald getting his jawi
bone broken yesterday la a little shanty
as a boathouse on Lasalle road.
The explosion oecurred just 415 n aap.
ids ear was passing and the motorman
stopped and attended to 'Vallee's Nur,.
les, binding up his wrist and arm with
n. handkerchief, and taking him to Ver.
dun, where he with his companion, walk,
ed to the office of Dr, Chabot, who cont.
pleted the dressing and. called an antbu.
lame. At Notre Dame Hospital it was
found necessary to amputate Valle's arm
at the wrist. Ilie companion's injuries
were slight. • Thii boat house at Which
the aeeident ocetured Was Set on fire
and burned down before the car reaehed
it on its return journey.
BUY NO HATS
Unique Boycott Urged by
a Suffragette.
London, April 1. ---At a meeting of
the suffragettes held to -night in pro-
test against what the speaker described
as their "base betrayal by the House of
Commons," Mrs. Despard, who Was sen-
tenced to prison in 1909, and was ,onee
arrested for picketing Premier Asqeities
house, said the time had arrived ler the
militant suffragettes to adopt more ef-
fective methods to gain their desires.
She urged, in effect, a boycott. She said
the women should not buy hats, which
would hurt the tradesmen worse tban
window -smashing. declared that they
should not go to seaside resorts repre-
sented in Parliament by men of anti -
suffragist tendencies, aed should not sal).
scribe funds to churches or institutions
or invest their money in England.
THE RICHELIEU.
•••••••••••••
Its Navigation Merger Deal
Now Completed.
••••••••••••••••••••
MontYeal, April 1 -Representa-
tives of the big Richelieu & Ontario
Navigation merger deal, under the
chairmanship of Sir Rodolphe Forget,
M.P., were in session to -day in com-
pleting details itt the merger scheme.
Previous to the conference this morn-
ing Sir Rodolphe Forget admitted to
the Canadian Press that all friction
had been removed and that the in-
terests concerned have finally come
to a mutual agreement. The merger
will include beside the Richelieu &
Ontario Co., the Northern Navigation
Co. and the Inland Navigation fleet,
later to be followed by the addition
of the Niagara Company and sever-
al other smaller navigation interests
doing business on the great lakes.
FOUND DEAD
Lived LiCe of Sacrifice for
Grandchildren.
Toronto Desputch-Living .a life of
self-sacrifice, that the homeless daugh-
ters of his son might be kept in comfort,
was the pitiful tale laid hare by the find-
ing of the body yesterday of James
Parkes in an old shack at Moore Lake.
For many years the figure of the old
man. ,who came front Aberdeenshire.
Scetland, many years ago, and who was
a former gardened for Lord Aberdeen,
was familiar in the north end of the city,
About three weeks ago he told his neigh -
burs that he was going east to do some
'Pruning, and when he was seen no more
and postcards for him arrived asking
why he had not come, the county con-
stable and Dr. M. l‘f, Crawford broke in-
to the shack and found his body.
It appears that Parkes had a son who
was killed in Chicago a few years ago,
lei.ving three Mite girls. The aged
grandfather placed them in a home. and
by hard work and privation. was able to
Provide for them.
TOWER FELL
Wireless Skeleton Blown
Down in Germany.
Nation, Germany, April 1.-A ter -
tittle storm caused the eon/Lose this
morning of the great -skeleton tower, 656
feet high, belonging to the German wire-
less statin here. There were no casu-
alties. The tower was reeently doubled
in height and Apart from the Eiffel tow-
er in Paris was the highest steel skele-
ton tower in the wprld. A nesv plant
was recently provided at the station by
means of which it was expected that
comninnication would be made by the
stations in America.
4.41.
THIRD SET OF TEETH.
Boston, April 1. -The getting of her
third set of teeth was responsible for
the death of Mrs. Margaret Newman,
85 years, of Chelsea, yesterday. Mrs.
Newman had been ill for several daee
and suffered intense aptly. Less than
a week ago she was takett with severe
pains in the jaws and face and exemin-
ation by a doctor revealed the fact that
several back molars were cutting
through the gums.
4 • •
THE POPE ALL RIGHT.
Rome April le -The reports vatic+
have been Pat in etreulation again that
the Pope is ill were shown to be un-
founded this morning, when he reeetved
Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, reetne of the
Ameriean Conege in ROMej Witt) lilthdea
to him the "Peter's pence ;rote the
Dioeette of Newark, end 'Oslo preeeeted
it lumber of visitors. The Pontiff ap-
peared during the audieneeto be in
meal condition of health.
CANNERY FOR THE ARCTIC.
Seattle, Wash., April 1.-A power
schooner, which hat btee f:tted out here
for a eruise in Wilting Sea and the Are -
tie Ocean, will take a ealmort eantrery
plant to ltotvellue Sound, on the Arette.
This will he the first aftlinen Winer 04
the Aretie ()emit The telt are seitl to
be of better quality than those taught
Maher smith, but the difficulties of
teething the Arctic liVetit are vete*
great, and the season is $114t,